Young GILELS plays CHOPIN Ballade

[StevieTheWanderer]

.... 4. ... what i mean with the tone eg. listen to Emil Gilels plays Liszt La Chasse there you can hear the difference I'd say ... or listen to Claudio Arrau's Version which i find really good, too - but the sound, the keystroke is completely another one ....I've had some pianistical and musical ear-openers in youtube in the last weeks .... eg Dinu Lipatti ... and this is another one for me, a little pearl - so many thx for sharing, some really beautiful things here to listen learn experience

[Bret6464]

@StevieTheWanderer There's is another version of Gilels playing ballade 1 when he was older also on EwaHartwig's channel, both are out-of-this world and extraordinary performances. Gilels is the ultimate poet on the piano, he was a true wonder, a monumental pianist, hasn't been matched by anyone, not playing Chopin, others :-)

[StevieTheWanderer]

.... compare it to other versions ... i cannot hear for example any longer the "depressive" or "manic", "bi-polared", over-dramatized, over-passionated ... over-psychologized, over-emotionalisized ... or over-technisized ... Chopin any more ... others make so much dynamical, tempical, technical, virtuosical, affectual, emotional effects ... nowadays the "digital" and "machine-like" playstile seems to be "en vogue" - what is horrible - and mostly the sound of tone is "pressed" and "forced" ...

[StevieTheWanderer]

.... (you know, i don't find to express the right words;-) - but most I'm fascinated by the sound of the tone. (It reminds me of J.S.Bach or W.A.Mozart when played well and beautiful) - this gives me a very different and other impression of the music of F.Chopin then that I had before and that I like more. He plays without "clap-trapping" and "effect-haunting". Just let the tones roll like little pearls out of his hands like Bach and Mozart (or others ...?) who were springing fountains ....

[StevieTheWanderer]

think, this is the best version i ever heard. Such a beautiful melodic SINGING tone and sound, such a clearness and transparency, but even smooth and warm. I've never heard a sound like this. At the same time so playfully and "kittenish" (kind of cat-like i mean ;-) or like a springing fountain or water-spray - even the most difficult parts are played with a grace and easiness, so integrated, so subordinated in the whole ballad, in the narration and theme and floating or travelling on .....

[PrestoPossibile]

huge artist... thanx so much for uploading it...

[PhilPhilUSA]

What a great artist - the live recording of the Gminor balade also on this wonderful leaves no room for doubt - Mr. Gilels is a titan among pianists.

[BalladeNumber1Opus23]

@PhilPhilUSA Sure, check this one: /watch?v=EtuMVBLEWJU

[PhilPhilUSA]

@BalladeNumber1Opus23 Thank you! just watched it - Gilels: the heart of a lion - the poetry of a angel.

[BalladeNumber1Opus23]

@PhilPhilUSA And by the way, here's fantastic interpretation of this ballade by Janusz Olejniczak: /watch?v=RQk3Zh71dGA It's cutted for the movie, but it's still amazing.

[gromoglas77]

Спасибо за великолепную запись! Согласна с chad410: звук очень теплый и даже бархатный. Это создает впечатление, что музыкант играет сейчас только для тебя. Потрясающе! Сейчас это играют более открытым звуком и уже нет такой интимности... Еще раз спасибо!

[EvaHartwig]

Thank You, Chad,

You always find the very words.

[chad410]

he saved me from a nightmarish episode years ago is all I can speak of.

[chad410]

beautiful tone in this recording. very very special. that warmth , beauty and honesty is what all seek in life ; in nature , love and music. I feel many things when I hear Gilels.